By Roy Proctor | Special correspondent Virginia Opera’s new take on the world’s most-often produced opera is vocally and instrumentally sumptuous, to be sure, but Verdi’s “La Traviata” at the Carpenter Theatre opens with a visual stunner that will take your breath...
By Rich Griset Preview: Virginia Opera’s “La Traviata” explores a timeless story of forbidden love. Lucid Frame Productions Cecilia Lopez as Violetta and Rolando Sanz as Alfredo in “La Traviata,” based on a play adapted from a novel by Alexandre Dumas the younger. The...
By Terry Ponick With astonishing performances by Cecilia Violetta López and Malcolm MacKenzie, Virginia Opera’s current production of Verdi’s tuneful, tragic masterpiece is a genuine three-hankie surprise. Young soprano Cecilia Violetta López astonishes as...
By Joan Reinthaler The Virginia Opera has a fine “La Traviata” on its hands. Verdi’s sad but sumptuous opera opened Saturday for two performances at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts. And while soprano Cecilia Violetta Lopez’s Violetta may have carried the...
By David Siegel Be smitten with Violetta, the brave woman who learns that “love can be inspired by a passing glance,” but happiness is not such an easy journey. This is the grand sweep of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” the world’s most performed opera, coming to the Center...
By Sarah Kingsley To close the season, Virginia Opera premieres a brand new traditional staging of La Traviata, directed by Lilian Groag. A classic Italian opera composed by one of the masters of the art form – Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata is the most performed opera...
